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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 3

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

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With the death of her son in 1875, Cixi adopts the three-year-old son of her sister and names him Emperor, thus orchestrating her return to power. Show more

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